Cohoes High School students spent time today cleaning up their city, and planting trees donated by Mohawk Fine Paper, during the annual Global Youth Service Day (Friday, May 6).
Students and faculty participated in the annual event to beautify public areas of the city and were assigned to collected debris and plant trees in six Cohoes parks including: George St. Park, VietNam Park (Columbia St.), Sunset Park (Reservoir St.), Grestini Park (Olmstead St.), Greenbriar Park (North 3rd St.), and Craner Park (Devlin St.).
About a dozen students gathered this morning in George St. Park to participate in the clean up, pausing for a photo with Mohawk employees after they planted a tree.
Mohawk was pleased to have the opportunity to participate in the Cohoes community beautification program as a follow up to its recent annual Earth Day clean up initiative. Mohawk encourages its employees to volunteer on Earth Day each year to clean up parks, sidewalks, and other areas in the vicinity of their workplaces. Employees are incentivized to pitch in, and educate themselves about responsible use of energy, water and other natural resources.
